Hamlet

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Magazine Desk

The greatest poem of the millennium? It is no betrayal of the lyric if I name ''Hamlet,'' a work as lyric as it is dramatic. Its ''carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,/. . . accidental judgements, casual slaughters'' -- I quote from the play -- make up the linear plot, but its lyric structure gives us ''the book and volume'' of Hamlet's high consciousness, tragic and mocking, arching like a glittering spider web over the dramatic action.

April 18, 1999theaterNews

Arts and Leisure Desk

"Hamlet" can be done any way. We could put it in a swimming pool in Los Angeles; we could put it on the moon; we could put it in the middle of a highway, run over it with a steamroller and this Shakespeare text - an indestructible rock - is not destroyed.

July 2, 1995moviesNews

National Desk

When you're trying to get your client's conviction reversed, six homicides can be a tad much to explain away. Particularly when the judges know the case as well as, if not better than, you do. And especially when hundreds of onlookers -- colleagues at the bar whom your client has insulted (he once gleefully asked a gravedigger, "Why might not that be the skull of a lawyer?") -- are leaning forward, salivating.

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